Downtown
Downtown, Kuzey Amerika'da şehirlerin merkez kısmı için kullanilan bir terimdir. Bununla beraber "uptown" ve "midtown" kelimeleri de kullanılır.[1] Terim ilk önce 1830 yıllarında güney Manhattan bölgesini ayırt etmek için New York'ta kullanılmaya başladı, şimdi tüm dünyada yaygındır. Birçok ülkelerde ticari alan ve merkezi iş alanı (MİA), Avrupa şehirlerinde ise tarihi mekan'ların olduğu yer, şehir içi ve şehir merkezi "Downtown" olabilir.[2]
En popüler Downtown'lar
ABD
- Downtown Albuquerque
- Downtown Atlanta
- Downtown Austin
- Downtown Baltimore
- Downtown Boston
- Financial District, Boston
- Uptown Charlotte
- Chicago Loop
- Downtown Cleveland
- Downtown Colorado Springs
- Downtown Columbus
- Downtown Denver
- Downtown Detroit
- Downtown Dallas
- Downtown El Paso
- Downtown Fort Worth
- Downtown Fresno
- Downtown Houston
- Downtown Indianapolis
- Downtown Jacksonville
- Downtown Kansas City
- Downtown Las Vegas
- Downtown Long Beach
- Downtown Los Angeles
- Downtown Louisville
- Downtown Memphis
- Downtown Miami
- Downtown Milwaukee
- Midtown Manhattan, New York City
- Financial District, New York City
- Downtown Brooklyn, New York City
- Downtown Minneapolis
- Downtown Nashville
- Downtown Oakland
- Downtown Oklahoma City
- Center City, Philadelphia
- Downtown Phoenix
- Downtown Portland
- Downtown Raleigh
- Downtown Sacramento
- Downtown San Antonio
- Downtown San Diego
- Downtown San Francisco
- Downtown San Jose
- Downtown Seattle
- Downtown Tucson
- Downtown Tulsa
- Downtown, Washington, D.C.
- Downtown Wichita
Kanada
- Downtown Calgary
- Downtown Edmonton
- Downtown Halifax
- Downtown Montreal
- Downtown Ottawa
- Downtown St. John's
- Downtown Toronto
- Downtown Vancouver
- Downtown Victoria
- Downtown Winnipeg